Fish is an important item in our food chain. It is loaded with nutrients like polyunsaturated fatty acids, essential minerals, and easy-to-digest proteins. Fish items in our regular diet make us strong and healthy and boost our immunity no other food can do. India is blessed with a coastal belt on all three sides and has an abundance of rivers, lakes, and other water bodies for fish cultivation and fish harvests. Fish is a delicate food item and needs care and knowledge to prepare to get the right taste, texture, and flavour in the final prepared dish. Fishy Affair is a book on fish recipes with the exact details so that a novice can boldly venture with confidence to cook the dishes. The book is gradual on cooking expertise and one can graduate from the simple preparations to the most challenging ones. Typical regular home lunch dishes like Macher Jhol, Jhal to mustard added fish preparations, to the Anglo-Indian preparations like baked and fried dishes are all very lucidly written.variety in the seafood recipes the author mentioned with illustrations to make them doable. Prawns curries, Crabs curries, and Leaf Wrapped Paturis make the book interesting and worth reading. The author has personally tried out every recipe in this book and thus the recipes are presented easily and comprehensively for any person to do, provided he or she is brave enough to take up the challenge. All the photographs accompanying the recipes are shot by the author during the actual process of food preparation and thus one can check for the detailed outcome. These realistic photos will serve as a guide for anyone trying to cook the recipes.

How to use foundation piecing to make accurate full-circle and freeform curved designs, as well as appliqued bias strips that give the impression of curved pages.

The first of Chekhov's works to be published in a serious literary journal, `The Steppe', with its masterly account of a spectacular thunderstorm, signifies his maturation as a writer of short stories. While the majority of his tales focus on the privileged classes, this selection shows that Chekhov never forgot his origins as the son of a failed provincial grocer, and characters as varied as the brutal soldier in `Gusev', the downtrodden old constable in `On Official Business', and the bemused peasants in `New Villa' testify to the power and flexibility of his art.

"... containing the names and the disposition made of more than 20,000 pictures, from ... May 15th, 1915, up to the end of the year 1917. This list will be supplemented by further lists presented at the end of each half yearly period."--Pennsylvania. State Board of Censors of Moving Pictures. Report, 1918, p. 7.

This is the story of a woman who vanished without trace from Brisbane's Central Station in November 1938. Before her disappearnce, she wet up an elaborate series of Deceptions that has made it impossible for anyone to establish her fate. This fresh analysis of her known and possible movements on that day suggests that her disappearance stemmed from a sinister plot planned at hight police and political levels. It highlights suspicions that efforts were made deliberately to suppress important evidence at an in quest that unsuccessfully investigated her undoubted death at the hands of an abortionist, and that vital evidence never heard by a court sill exists. A proper examination of this evidence today might yet solve the Marjorie Norval mystery.